IDC: Pill shipments decline for 16th straight quarter

The pill market has now declined year-over-year for 16 quarters straight. Q3 2018 noticed an 8.6 p.c year-over-year decline: 36.Four million items shipped worldwide, in comparison with 39.9 million items in the identical quarter final 12 months.

The one silver lining is that the Q3 2018 decline wasn’t double digits once more. Whereas 2017 quarters solely noticed single-digit declines, Q1 2018 and Q2 2018 have been within the double digits.

The estimates come from IDC, which counts each slate kind components and detachables, that means tablets with keyboards included. Apple maintained its prime spot for the quarter, with Samsung and Amazon rounding out the highest three.

Huawei was the one firm within the prime 5 to ship extra tablets than the 12 months earlier than. The highest 5 distributors accounted for 68.Four p.c of the market, up from 67.1 p.c final 12 months:

Apple’s cargo numbers have been down by 600,000, however that also translated right into a slight 0.7 proportion level acquire (from 25.9 p.c to 26.6 p.c), as the general pill market declined a lot. The corporate was in a position to keep its lead partly because of this 12 months’s iPad. The brand new iPad Professional introduced this week ought to assist it going into This fall.

Samsung shipped 700,000 fewer tablets than within the quarter a 12 months in the past and ended up dropping 0.7 factors of market share (from 15.Zero p.c to 14.6 p.c). The corporate’s slate fashions declined greater than its removable shipments may accommodate. It appears to be like like the brand new Galaxy Tab S4 and Galaxy Tab A 10.5 didn’t make a lot of a dent.

The substitute cycle for tablets continues to be nearer to that of conventional PCs than smartphones, and 2018 hasn’t been in a position to change that. Apple and Microsoft’s makes an attempt with removable tablets should not having a large influence (but?).

“The removable market has didn’t see progress in 2018, a worrying development that has plagued the class on and off for the reason that finish of 2016,” IDC analysis analyst Lauren Guenveur mentioned in an announcement. “In October, we lastly noticed the extremely anticipated refreshes of Apple’s iPad Professional and Microsoft’s Floor Professional, in addition to new merchandise by Samsung and Google, which lead us to imagine that the final quarter of the 12 months will flip the removable class round, not less than in the meanwhile. More and more sparse are new merchandise by the top-tier PC OEMs as they continue to be extra centered on their convertible portfolio, a transfer that can finally have an effect on the general trajectory of the removable market going ahead.”